is there just not that many ducks this year? I'm busting my chops these days to kill a few birds. Heck, I'm even going to new places hoping for better luck. Anyone in the same boat(or layout blind), who's just not seeing the numbers or action? I'm hunting the salt marshes and ponds, freshwater creeks that are open, and the ocean for sea ducks, and my lab Gunner ain't pleased with the amount of retrieves lately.

If your hunting the salt marshes in south county there hasn't been much there for years. I gave up hunting them about 15 years ago. Between the amateurs and lack of birds it wasn't worth hunting them for me anymore.

We haven't had a good lasting freeze yet and in my 35 years fowl hunting in RI, that what I see as to what produces birds. Usually it doesn't get good till January anyway. If it's a warm month don't count on it getting better then it is already.

I think it just hasn't been cold enough up north to force the flights south yet.